Lancashire left beached despite style of Sutcliffe

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BLACKPOOL (second day of four): Lancashire have scored 429 for six wickets against Warwickshire

RAIN, Lancashire’s old enemy, drowned their championship charge by the sea yesterday. With more forecast, they will probably have to settle for 12 points and some parched peas. Lancastrians will tell you that their team lose more cricket to the weather than anyone else. That can lend a man a certain philosophy, but with the championship on the line they may begin to feel the heavens are against them.

Andrew Hignell, the Glamorgan scorer, showed it was more than simple Lancastrian gloom in a detailed study